Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 235 284
Rank change year-on-year -67 +49 -64
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 508 550 915
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.35% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.45% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 213 307 517
10th Percentile £42,428 £45,750 £41,550
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,745 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,510 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,190 £103,000 £113,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -60 466 £67,500 -3.57% 221
London +34 283 £85,000 +13.33% 105
Work from Home +58 241 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -162 173 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -58 61 £74,500 -6.88% 31
North West -23 38 £83,750 +4.62% 16
Midlands -52 34 £61,538 -1.54% 19
South East -122 29 £53,750 -17.31% 47
East of England -12 25 £61,300 -5.69% 21
West Midlands -27 25 £57,500 -8.00% 11
Yorkshire -51 20 £63,076 +94.08% 13
South West -60 16 £62,500 -1.67% 12
East Midlands -59 9 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 1
Scotland -20 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Wales -26 3 £69,501 +16.11% 6
North East -34 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 17 (3.35%) Confluence
3 11 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) CICS
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (6.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 19 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.59%) Trello
7 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (3.94%) Workfront
2 7 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.17%) AWS
2 62 (12.20%) SaaS
3 49 (9.65%) Azure
4 34 (6.69%) iPaaS
5 19 (3.74%) GitHub
5 19 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.74%) Pulumi
6 15 (2.95%) GCP
6 15 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.77%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.57%) Asana
9 8 (1.57%) H2O.ai
9 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.38%) Figma
11 6 (1.18%) PaaS
12 5 (0.98%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.79%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.61%) Broadband
2 20 (3.94%) HTTP
3 9 (1.77%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.77%) WAN
4 6 (1.18%) LAN
4 6 (1.18%) RTP
5 4 (0.79%) NGN
6 3 (0.59%) Multicast
6 3 (0.59%) Network Security
6 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.59%) Wireless
7 2 (0.39%) Firewall
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.66%) Metadata
2 20 (3.94%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.94%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.94%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.54%) Power BI
4 9 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.18%) Tableau
6 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) DB2
9 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (5.71%) JIRA
2 19 (3.74%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 185 (36.42%) Finance
2 166 (32.68%) Social Skills
3 150 (29.53%) Marketing
4 90 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (15.35%) Banking
6 65 (12.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (11.22%) Retail
8 55 (10.83%) Law
9 44 (8.66%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (8.07%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (6.69%) Legal
12 28 (5.51%) Back Office
12 28 (5.51%) Financial Institution
12 28 (5.51%) Public Sector
13 22 (4.33%) Manufacturing
14 19 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (3.15%) Digital Economy
16 12 (2.36%) Italian Language
16 12 (2.36%) Retail Banking
17 11 (2.17%) German Language
Job Titles
1 143 (28.15%) Product Manager
2 80 (15.75%) Senior
3 70 (13.78%) Lead
4 54 (10.63%) Product Owner
5 41 (8.07%) Senior Manager
6 34 (6.69%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.33%) Developer
8 21 (4.13%) Development Engineer
8 21 (4.13%) Software Engineer
9 20 (3.94%) Software Development Engineer
10 19 (3.74%) Product Lead
11 18 (3.54%) Consultant
12 15 (2.95%) Digital Product Manager
12 15 (2.95%) Senior Development Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 15 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.36%) Business Consultant
14 12 (2.36%) Change Manager
14 12 (2.36%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.53%) REST
2 19 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.57%) Keras
3 8 (1.57%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.18%) YAML
5 3 (0.59%) .NET
5 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) HTML
6 2 (0.39%) Spring
6 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) Flask
7 1 (0.20%) JSON
7 1 (0.20%) PySpark
7 1 (0.20%) pytest
7 1 (0.20%) React
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 131 (25.79%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.06%) Social Media
3 36 (7.09%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (6.89%) Over-the-Top Content
5 32 (6.30%) Cloud Native
6 28 (5.51%) Onboarding
7 27 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (4.92%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.13%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.38%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.38%) Podcast
12 7 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
13 6 (1.18%) IoT
13 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.53%) Linux
2 19 (3.74%) Unix
3 6 (1.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (58.46%) Roadmaps
2 240 (47.24%) Agile
3 145 (28.54%) Product Roadmap
4 110 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 110 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 106 (20.87%) Product Vision
6 104 (20.47%) AI
7 101 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (19.29%) Decision-Making
9 95 (18.70%) Mentoring
10 93 (18.31%) Product Strategy
11 86 (16.93%) User Stories
12 71 (13.98%) User Experience
13 69 (13.58%) Customer Experience
14 68 (13.39%) Analytics
15 67 (13.19%) Product Backlog
16 61 (12.01%) Product Requirements
17 60 (11.81%) DevOps
18 59 (11.61%) Coaching
19 58 (11.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.66%) Java
2 38 (7.48%) Python
3 25 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.94%) Go
5 19 (3.74%) Bash
6 18 (3.54%) SQL
7 6 (1.18%) Bicep
7 6 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.59%) C#
8 3 (0.59%) R
9 2 (0.39%) COBOL
9 2 (0.39%) JCL
9 2 (0.39%) PHP
9 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (17.32%) Degree
2 28 (5.51%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.38%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.98%) HNC
8 5 (0.98%) MBA
9 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.59%) CCNA
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.59%) PMP
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) CISM
11 2 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.92%) QA
2 10 (1.97%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.38%) GDPR
4 7 (1.38%) NCSC
5 6 (1.18%) NIST
6 5 (0.98%) PMO
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) PERC
9 2 (0.39%) COREP
9 2 (0.39%) FINREP
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) GMP
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.30%) Terraform
2 23 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.74%) Ansible
3 19 (3.74%) Argo
3 19 (3.74%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 46 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.46%) Adobe
3 35 (6.89%) Google
4 11 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.77%) Oracle
6 8 (1.57%) Databricks
6 8 (1.57%) Dell
6 8 (1.57%) NVIDIA
7 6 (1.18%) Foundry
8 5 (0.98%) Cisco
9 4 (0.79%) Facebook
9 4 (0.79%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.79%) YouTube
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.59%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.59%) Sage
10 3 (0.59%) Tenable
10 3 (0.59%) Trayport